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5026.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM | |||
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| The susceptibility of children to certain environmental toxins is different from adults and as a result of children's curiosity and need to explore their world, their exposures are often unique. Whether a child is exposed to environmental hazards in their home, at school, or other places of interest in their local communities, they are all vulnerable of having their health impacted in a negative way. Presentations will address initiatives linking in-school exposures to airborne emmissions, increased asthma morbidty to mold and mildew concentrations, and school bus emmissions to the health of children. In addition, a trend assessment of children's environmental health through the Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units will be described. Social economic status also serves as an important confounder to the vulnerabilities of populations impacted by environmental health threats. Variations in asthma and diabetes trends, respiratory risk identified through GIS mapping, and local impacts of climate change will all be presented. Capacity building strategies, effects of the built environment, and overall environmental hazards related to low-income communities will also be discussed. | |||
| Learning Objectives: 1) Describe the process by which environmental model projections are applied to health risk assessment; 2) Construct criteria for identifying urban and non-urban populations and communities potentially most vulnerable to environmentally-related exposures; 3) Articulate the collaborative process used to build environmental health capacity; 4) Discuss physical environmental and social environmental implications of the different patterns in health trends. | |||
| Nsedu Obot Witherspoon, MPH Sacoby M. Wilson, MS Kimberly Gray, PhD Shobha Srinivasan, PHD Daneen Farrow-Collier Max Weintraub, MS | |||
| Reshaping the built environment to reduce public health impacts of the urban heat island effect Joyce Rosenthal, MSUP, MPH, Kim Knowlton, Patrick L. Kinney, PhD | |||
| Projecting the local impacts of global climate change on public health in New York City Kim Knowlton, Joyce Rosenthal, Cynthia Rosenzweig, Richard Goldberg, Barry Lynn, Stuart Gaffin, William Solecki, Charles Oliveri, Jennifer Cox, Christopher Small, Christian Hogrefe, Kevin Civerolo, Michael J.-Y. Ku, Patrick L. Kinney, ScD | |||
| Environmental health capacity building in the Eastern Agency on the Navajo Nation Johnnye L. Lewis, PhD, DABT, Chris Shuey, MPH, Edward Carlisle, Thomas Manning | |||
| Meeting an unmet need: A pilot project to address environmental hazards in low-income family child care provider homes Carolyn A. Kawecki, RN, MA, Patricia Magnuson, BFA, MUP | |||
| Variations in asthma and diabetes rates for low SES adults residing in socioeconomically heterogeneous communities Gary D. Klein, PhD, Lisa Kleiner, JD, MSS, Abdul Beraima, PhD, Francine Axler, MPH | |||
| Unequal respiratory health risk: Using a GIS to explore hurricane-related flooding of schools in eastern North Carolina Virginia Thompson Guidry, MPH, Lewis H. Margolis, MD, MPH | |||
| Validation of record-based estimates of in-school exposure to airborne emissions from industrial hog operations using responses to a survey of school employees Maria Mirabelli, MPH, Steve Wing, PhD | |||
| Self-reported moisture or mildew in the homes of preschool children with asthma is associated with greater asthma morbidity Sebastian Bonner, PhD, Thomas Matte, MD, MPH, Joanne Fagan, PhD, Tinka Markham Piper, MPH, CSW, Evie Andreopoulos, David Evans, PhD | |||
| Trend analysis of environmental exposures in children: The Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Units Program M. Nolana Kabwit, MPH, Paula Davis | |||
| Reducing school bus emissions: Successful solutions and practical applications Trish Koman, MPP | |||
| See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information. | |||
| Organized by: | Environment | ||
| Endorsed by: | American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian Caucus; Community Health Planning and Policy Development; Maternal and Child Health; Public Health Education and Health Promotion; School Health Education and Services | ||